In 1930, a common man made the Indian scientific society proud by bagging the first Nobel prize for physics. The man who decoded the color of sky and sea, and changed the people’s perspective on spectroscopy, he is none other than Dr. C.V. Raman. Young days: In a small city Tiruchirppalli, Tamil Nadu on, 7 November 1888, Parvathi Ammal gave birth to a son who revolutionized the field of acoustics and optics. As a son of a lecturer in mathematics and physics, he manifested a brilliant mind in his childhood. Education: Raman’s passion towards studies, led him to accomplish his schooling at a very young age of 11. He moved to Chennai in 1903, to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Physics at Presidency college, Madras University. In 1906, he published his first research paper on diffraction of light as a graduate student. Achieving a gold medal, he then completed his masters in the same university. A bolt from the blue: In 1907, due to his father’s insistence he joined the Indian Fin...